Hi,

I do not know if I really should be included in the reviewers count, as I am a 
participant in the coman work since it started, and my name shows up on the 
list of authors, although in all sincerity most of the credits go to Mehmet, 
who hold the pen for most of the time, including this latest wound which split 
the original document into two separate documents - one for use cases, the 
other for problem statement and requirements. Anyway, FWIW I obviously believe 
this work is useful and I support doing it in the OPSAWG. I have a few comments 
recorded below: 

 draft-ersue-opsawg-coman-use-cases

1. I do not believe that we can get away with a zero-content security 
considerations section. The described use cases mention the need to secure 
information collected by constrained devices, some other (like security 
cameras) carry information related to personal or public security that needs to 
be protected by robust mechanisms. These kind of threats need to be mentioned 
IMO. 

 
draft-ersue-opsawg-coman-probstate-reqs

1. The draft uses the 'adjective' small device in association with constrained 
device in a few place. I suggest to remove this. There is no automatic 
association of a device being small implying that it is also constrained. Nor 
are all constrained devices small in size. 

2. We have made an effort in the last few versions and especially in this one 
to distinguish between the constrained devices and constrained networks, but 
the clean-up on this issue is not complete. For example section 1.6 still has 
text about constrained networks - this section and other in which constrained 
networks are mentioned should be carefully examined to make sure that the focus 
of the document stays with constrained devices, and that if constrained 
networks are mentioned at all this is in the context of their relationship with 
the constrained devices. 

3. I do not believe that we can get away with a zero-content security 
considerations section here either. The document even says: 

   If specific requirements for
   security will be identified, they will be described in future
   versions of this document.

This is not accurate - section 3.6 already speaks about requirments for 
security and access control, and section 1.6 mentions limitations that would 
prevent the implementation of strong scryptographic algorythms. The text needs 
to be reviewed and revised from this perspective. 

Regards,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: OPSAWG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Warren Kumari
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 6:49 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OPSAWG] Call for reviewers of draft-ersue-opsawg-coman-*
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Hopefully you all had a good Thanksgiving -- if you are in the US,
> hopefully you had good turkey, stuffing / whatever.
> If you are not US based, hopefully you enjoyed the decrease in email
> volume while everyone recovered form eating too much. :-)
> 
> One of the action items from Vancouver was for us to call for reviewers
> for:
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ersue-opsawg-coman-probstate-reqs/
> and
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ersue-opsawg-coman-use-cases/
> 
> So, can we get some volunteers please? According to our new guidelines
> we require sufficient reviewers before adopting new work.
> 
> The documents are (IMO) interesting and easy to read. Constrained
> devices have some interesting requirements and limitations.
> If you would like a quick reminder / refresher from the meeting, slides
> are here: http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/88/slides/slides-88-opsawg-11.pdf
> 
> Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> indicated
> that one of his Ph.D. students had read the draft a couple of weeks ago.
> So they just have to review the changes to the latest version.
> 
> 
> W
> --
> "I think it would be a good idea."
> - Mahatma Ghandi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
> 
> 
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